Month: February 2026

MERI-at-a-Glance (2026)

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MERI-at-a-Glance 2026 Friday, February 13th, 2026; DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building Guest Speakers Kevin Eliceiri (Medical Physics; Biomedical Engineering; CQCI) “The ImageJ ecosystem: An open platform for biomedical image analysis” David Herzfeld (Neuroscience) “The cerebellar circuit computations underlying smooth pursuit eye movements” Abhishek Kumar (Cell and Regenerative Biology; CQCI) “Visible Hyperspectral Microscopy for Retinal Imaging” Rosa …

MERI Member Donna Neumann Awarded NIH R01 to Advance HSV-1 Vision Research

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MERI member Prof. Donna Neumann (DOVS) has been awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to support her project, “A chromatin loop controls the expression of anterograde transport genes during HSV-1.” This highly competitive award builds on preliminary research supported by a pilot grant …